TripAdvisor lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 245 domains that resemble TripAdvisor since February 2026, 166 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (88%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 87% of them, out of 13 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 164 in the last 30 days against 1 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 14 September 2026, with 87 new ones. 32 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.ph names (registry wildcard) are excluded: the registry answers for any name under those endings, so nobody had to register one to get a certificate for it.
Data as of . Public sources only.
What kind of lookalikes
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 84 | 1 | 2 | 87 |
| 2026-09-21 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 50 |
| 2026-09-28 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| 2026-10-05 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 13 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 212 | 86.5% |
| .co.uk | 11 | 4.5% |
| .it | 8 | 3.3% |
| .ca | 4 | 1.6% |
| .xyz | 2 | 0.8% |
| .de | 1 | 0.4% |
| .in | 1 | 0.4% |
| .live | 1 | 0.4% |
Where they are registered
For the 208 with a registrar in WHOIS (85% of all). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by brands themselves, so a domain there is more likely the brand's own than an imitation.
| Registrar | Lookalikes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSC | 113 | 54.3% | Brand protection |
| Above.com | 27 | 13.0% | Retail |
| Corsearch | 23 | 11.1% | Brand protection |
| GoDaddy | 14 | 6.7% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 8 | 3.9% | Retail |
| Internet Domain Service BS | 7 | 3.4% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 2 | 1.0% | Retail |
| PDR | 2 | 1.0% | Retail |
What the live ones do
11 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 5 (45%) served a website and 5 (45%) publish MX records, so they can receive email. Checks run on the higher-severity matches that resolve, not on every lookalike.
Google Web Risk lists none of the 6 live ones checked against it.
6 were tracked while live and 0 have since gone down. See what to do about a lookalike.
Recent examples
The 10 most recent, written with [.] so they cannot be clicked. The brand's own domains and registrations held by brand-protection registrars are left out. A lookalike resembles TripAdvisor; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
tropadvisor[.]itTypo, Oct 12Not checkedtripadisor[.]co[.]ukTypo, Oct 11Not checkedtripadvisorservices[.]comCombo, Oct 10Serves a websitetripadvsor[.]co[.]ukTypo, Oct 10Not checkedtripdvisor[.]co[.]ukTypo, Oct 10Not checkedtripadvosor[.]co[.]ukTypo, Oct 9Not checkedtriadvisor[.]caTypo, Oct 7Not checkedripadvisor[.]co[.]ukTypo, Oct 4Not checkedtripavisor[.]co[.]ukTypo, Oct 4Not checkedgettripadvisor[.]comCombo, Oct 4MX records
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Greyphish is not affiliated with TripAdvisor. Domains listed resemble TripAdvisor by spelling; registration alone says nothing about intent. Counts cover domains first seen in public Certificate Transparency logs and ICANN zone files; domains that Greyphish customers watch are excluded.